---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Greetings, In Ontario, about is prounced "aboooowwt": house; "houwwwuse" :town; towwn. I call it the Ontarian "O". Julia, Reading, PA In a message dated 1/16/04 11:46:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, edoss@utm.edu writes: > Hey Terry, > It's pronounced "carrrrrrrrrrr" and "termater" in Northwest Tennessee. > Elwood > > Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT > Piano Technician/Technical Director > Department of Music > 106 Fine Arts Building > University of Tennessee at Martin > 731/587-1152 > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Farrell >> To: Pianotech >> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:04 AM >> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE? >> >> >> Hmmmm..... On the east coast you say? Did you hear that perhaps while >> driving in your caaaah? Or maybe while eating a tomater? ;-) >> >> Terry Farrell >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Jacques Granas" < >> jjgranas@zigzag.pl> >> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> >> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:39 AM >> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of KNABE? >> >> >> >> >Hello there, >> > >> >It is strange that no one seems to have mentioned it (maybe I missed >> it...), >> >but the word Knabe is a German word meaning "boy". Ttherefore, the way it >> is >> >pronounced (and by "it is" I don't mean that it's Holy Writ) derives from >> >the German pronounciation which, at least in this particular case, seems >> >like something we can manage. That explains why the "K" is pronounced, and >> >also why the final "E" is made to sound like "UH" or "EH"-like. That's how >> I >> >always heard it pronounced (on the east coast at least). >> > >> >Hope this contributes something worthwhile to the discussion. >> > >> >Jean-Jacques Granas >> > >> > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/aa/74/a0/d6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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